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I find beauty while fishing during each of the four seasons, but if I were asked to choose the most satisfying page in the calendar to pursue trout, it would be January. How some people find it in them to stay inside during the first month of the year is beyond my comprehension. The hush between January fish creates a sort of catalyst for hydrogen bonding to occur; for it is at this time that the chain holding my body- made up of mostly water- to the river flowing around it, is hardest to break.

I never wanted to leave northern Michigan.
Three years ago when the factory I worked at was shut down, a victim of free trade agreements and an economy bursting at the seams, I was forced to make one of those important decisions in life. I could stick around the area I grew up, where I was finally learning to appreciate all it had to offer-  the only catch being that I’d have to settle for making minimum wage working for golf/ski resorts and slowly lose my house- or, I could look …

As I drove east from Grayling along M-72 towards the South Branch of the Au Sable, I knew it was a little late in the season for the stream’s epic hatches; but knowing I was going to get to sit on that leaning Cedar again had me feeling about the same as a teenaged boy feels after throwing a fresh box of condoms in his glove box on the way to watch a movie at his girlfriend’s house while her parents are at their weekly bowling league.  I really didn’t …